Removing 'quotes' from a cell array
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I have a cell array with 2 columns..
Column 1 is made up of 'a' ''b' 'c' '''d'
Column 2 is 123 456 678
I need to export this into a ASCII tab delimited file as a 123 b 456 c 678 ...
How can I remove the ' or '' or ''' quotes?
Thanks, S
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Matt J
on 20 Oct 2012
The single quotes aren't really there. That's just MATLAB's way of enclosing/displaying a string. To get rid of the double quotes,
strrep( YourArray(:,1),'"','');
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Matt J
on 21 Oct 2012
Edited: Matt J
on 21 Oct 2012
Here's a more complete example,
E(:,1)={'a' '''b' 'c' '''d'}.';
E(:,2)={123, 456, 678,876}.';
E(:,1)=strrep(E(:,1),'''',''); %get rid of single quotes
E(:,1)=strrep(E(:,1),'"',''); %get rid of double quotes
%send to file
E=E.';
fid=fopen('events.txt','w');
for ii=1:numel(E)
if ischar(E{ii})
prec='%s';
else
prec='%d';
end
fprintf(fid,[prec '\t'],E{ii});
end
fclose(fid);
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